Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-17
NORTH OR soUrH-wH1CH2


the north or the south? The speaker of
the popular branch of congress is a south
erner and SO are the heads of his leading
committees, who, in fact, formulate and
fix legislation. A Calhoun man and re-
habilitated rebel will be on the supreme
bench The presiding genus of the cabi-
net, who impresses his image upon our
foreign policy, is southern man. The
head of the department of justice, who
presides over the legal conscience of the
government, is an eX-confederate brigadier
general. The representatives of the re-
public at the leading courts of Europe
used to train under the stars and bars"
The departments at Washington are
crowded with southern "majahs" and
kernels" and Judges" The civil service
commission has a representative from
South Carolina, who sits in judgment ON
the claims of men fer positions under the
government who performed duty under the
message, and the broad hands of Kentucky
Carlisle and Texas Mills are discernible in
every line. Which is in the saddle-the
north or the south?-Omaha Republican.
The Republicans statement of the case
under consideration is true beyond
controversy, but it might have gone
step farther and asked who is responsible
for such a state of affairs: Without
stopping to think the answer would be
given by nine-tents of the readers of the
statement quoted, "why, the south, of
course" Such, however, is not the case:
that is the south is not wholly to blame
for it. The people of that section have
simply taken advantage of the opportuni-
ties afforded them by the people Of the
north, and mainly by Republicans.
First, our people, we mean the peo-
pie of the north, because FESTIVE at the
seeming slowness of the government at
standing it was being done from the
very first as rapidly as the financial con-
dition of the country and its commercial
interests would admit, and the impatients
flew off at tangent and organized the
Greenback move. Then the temperance
people became dissatisfied at the slow
progress that cause seemed to them to be
making and because their demands for
absolute. universal prohibition were not
complied with by the Republican party
which had saved the Union and effected
the liberation of six millions of human
slaves, although it had given every assur-
ance in promise and pledge and act con-
sistent with its obligations to the whole
people, we say because these require
ments We're not complied with in iiffy
worry MANY aycallppt ritizanc and hit barto
good Republicans suffered themselves to
be led off and into the Prohibition camp.
Other minor issues have been made use
of to like purpose, and the result has
been-there could be but one result-the
weakening of the Republican party and
relatively strengthening of the Demo-
allies in the south who have never suf-
fered from any such dissentions and
sloughing off, that party succeeded in
gaining control of the government, and
being in a position to enforce its demands
for place, and being entitled to the lions
share, as for that, by reason of its indis-
pSllSiDle dSSlStdllCe Ill securing SUCH COLI
troll, it could hardly be otherwise than as
it is today.
| SO, then, while the Republican party
as such is in no way to blame for the
state of affairs complained of, individual
members of the party are responsible for
it, and the most serious, not to say ag-
gravating feature OF the situation Is
| that many of those who are responsible
| for the party's reyerses refuse to learn
anything from experience, but persist in
| their course. The outlook for success to
| the Republican party was never more
auspIcious, in view OF the Democratic
| faux pas on the tariff question than at
present, and if those who have hitherto
brought about its defeat by the course of
action indicated would stop their non
sensical endeavors and renew allegiance
to the party the enemy could and would
be speedily routed, horse, foot and
dragon, and the humiliating spectacle
which now tantalizes the loyal people
of the north removed and the govern
ment, in the heads Of departments at
least, be placed in the hands of friends
of the Union